Editing instructions for how to make a monster pizza

English

Learning the features of instructions

Generating ideas and vocabulary for instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Planning to write instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Writing the title, introduction and ingredients list for monster pizza instructions.

Writing instructions for how to make a monster pizza

In this unit, pupils learn about a type of non-fiction writing: instructions.  In ‘The Great Fire of London: Non-Chronological Report’, pupils learn to write in another non-fiction text type: non-chronological reports.

In ‘Looking After Pets: Reading and Writing’, pupils learnt how to give information to the reader about how to perform a task successfully.   In this unit, pupils will build on this by writing more formal instructions in a list.

In this unit, pupils write a set of formal instructions, including a title and an ingredients list, for a fantasy disgusting pizza. Pupils learn about imperative verbs and precise adjectives that match the informative and formal tone of writing.

Monster pizza: instructions writing

True or false? Editing is the process of making any changes needed to improve our writing. 

True or false? When you edit, you decide what you will change and what you will keep the same.

the name for the people who read our writing

the name for the spaces between words in our writing 

Which of these is **not** an example of punctuation?

Which piece of punctuation comes at the **end** of a sentence?

Which piece of punctuation comes after an ordering fronted adverbial? 

instructions for making something to read

Order these parts of a recipe, starting with which comes first.

True or false? A set of instructions do not need to be followed in order.

Which of these helps instructions to be read in the correct order?

Which of these ordering fronted adverbials would tell the reader they were reading the last instruction?

True or false? Ordering fronted adverbials are always followed by a comma. 

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Editing instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.